Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-03-18
KING
Solomon S Mines.
BY Is. RIDER HAGGARD.
CHAPTER V.

Two udfs W cut Oub Tic tuSh5 anu stt tiitiis
home and bury them carefully in the sand
under a large tree. which made a conspictl.
Gus mark for miles. IL was a wonderfully
fine lot of ivory. / never saw a better, aver
ging as it did between forty ald fifty
pounds tusk. The tusks of the great bull
that killed poor Khiya scaled one hundred
and seventy pounds the pair, as nearly as we
could judge
As for Khiya himself, we buried what re-
manned Of him in All ant-bear hole, together
with an assegai to protect himself with on
his journey TO better world. On the third
day we started on, hoping that we might one
day return to dig up our buried ivory, and in
due course, after long and wearisOme
tramp, and many adventures which | have
not space TO detail, reached Sitanda's Kraal,
near the Lukanga River, the real starting
point Of our expedition. Very well do i re-
collect our arrival at that place. To the right
was a scattered native settlement with few
stone cattle kraals and some cultivated lands
down by the water, where these savages
grew their scanty supply of grain, and be
y0nd ii great tracts Of waving ''yeldt' cover
ed with tall grass, over which herds OF the
smaller game were wandering.
To the left was the vast desert. This spot
appeared to be the outpost of the fertile
country, and it would be difficult TO say TO
what natural causes such an abrupt change
in the character Of the soil was due. But Sc
1t was. Just below our encampment flowed
n little stream, on the further side OF which
was a stony slope, the same down which |
had twenty years before seen poor Silyestre
creeping back after his attempt 10 reach So
lemons Mines, and beyond that slope began
the waterless desert covered with a species
Hf knTu0 GItTh II pyqpinU tNlqp we
pitched our camp, and the great fiery ball OF
the sun was sinking into the desert, sending
glorious rays OF many-cOlOred light flying all
over the vast expanse Leaving Good to
superintcnd the arrangement of our little
camp, took Sir Henry with me, and we
walked to the top Of the slope opposite and
gazed out across the desert The air was very
clear, and far, far away | could distinguish
The faint blue outlines, here and there capped
with white of the great SULLIVAN Berg.
There" | said, there is the wall of Solo
mons Mines, but God knows if we shall ever
climb IL"
My brother should be there, and if he is,
fShall reach him somehow" said Sir Henry,
in that tone of quiet confidence which
marked the man.
IL hope So" answered. and turned to 90
back to the camp, when | saw that we were
not alone. Behind ua also gazing earnestly
toward the far-On mountains, stood the great
Zulu Umb0pa.
The Zulu spoke when he saw that | had
observed him. but addressed himself to Sir
Henry, to whom he had attached himself.
1T IS TO that land that you would journey,
Iucubu"' tEicphant-Sr Hemrys Zulu
name, he said, pointing toward the noun
UliuS with his broad aSsegai.
| asked him sharply what he meant by ad-
dressing Ills master in that familiar way. 1t
IL very well for natives TO have a name for
ono among Themselves, but it Is not decent
that they should call one by their hcathGn-
lsh appcllnton5 to ones face. The man
laughed quiet little laugh which riled me-
How do you know that | am not the
equal OF tine lnKosi seryc% he said. "Ie
Is of a royal house no doubt; one can see 1t
in hls size and in his eye; 50 perhaps am |.
A least | ann as great a man. Be my mouth,
oh, Macumazahn, and say my words to the
lnk0os Iucubu, my master, for | would
speak To him and to you"
| was angry with the man, for ] am not
accustomed to he talked to in that way by
katirs but somehow he impressed me, and
besides wits curious 10 know what he had
to say, So | translated, expressing my opin-
ion nj the same time that he was an impu-
dent fellow, and that his swaggcr was out
Tagcous.
Yes, Umbopa" answered Sir Henry,
81 would journey there"
"Tho desert il wide and there Is no water
the mountains are high and covered with
snow, aud man cauuOt say what is beyond
them behind tho place where the sun sets :;
how shall you como thithcr, Incubu, ard
wherefore Ito you go|'
translated again.
Tell him, answered Sir Henry, that |
20 because believe that a man of my blood.
my brother, has gone there before me, and |
20 to seek hun
THAT is SO, lncubu man | met on the
road told me that white man wont out into
the desert two years ago toward those noun
talns with one servant, hunter. They
never came back"
'ilow do You know 1t was my brothcr?"
asked Sir Henry
Nay, | know not But the man, when
asked what the white man was like said
that he had your eyes and a black beard. He
said, too, that the name of tho hunter with
hm vas Jim, that he was n Bechuana hunt
81 and wore clothes
There Is no doubt about it." said |, 81
knew Jim we'll"
ST Henry nodded. II was sure of IT," he
"e3ise SET MS NINA upon thlhS'
he generally did 1t. Ii was always SO from
hiS hoNhood. II he meant TO cross the Suli-
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